On Wednesday, 9 August 2000, David Raleigh Arnold writes:
> I think that I put too much in one message.
Well, this one's ok, thanks. Nitpick: you still seem to need quite some
text to request a simple feature (getting a bug fixed, whatever you may
call it), that, if I read you correctly, could be described by:
We need a chord-name-mode in Lily, that only displays chord names
when there's a change in the chord-name-scheme. Also, the chord
name should always be displayed after a line break.
At least, that's the new feature I've added for .78. There's no text
for NC/Tacet (as yet). Does this help you?
Greetings,
Jan.
> The chord notation in lilypond is broken.
>
> C G7
> rest |music |music|rest|music |music |
>
> G7 N.C. G7 C
> music |solo |music |music ||
>
>
> The second G7 above is required at the new line. You can't make
> it automatic without changes. My specific problem, as I said,
> makes it impossible. (Let's see, I could write another voice
> consisting in spacer rests or use a dummy lyrics part?) I really
> don't care about that. I want to help. What bothers me is that
> the chords are broken, and always have been. It would be better
> if a rest in the chord part generated an "N.C." or "No Chord...."
> (or, better yet, a "tacet", which has a lot more class,
> besides being international.) except at the beginning (or after
> an "N.C."), where there is no issue of repeating a chord because
> there is no chord to repeat, and depending on the horizontal
> space involved whether to abbreviate "No Chord". Then some kind
> of tie, abbreviated please, could be used in the typed chord part
> instead of rests, to indicate that the chord was still in force
> to be restated in case of new lines. Consider the logic. It never
> made much sense to type a rest (or skip) to indicate that one
> should keep playing a chord rather than stop playing them. :-)
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